I've had a lot of issues with sticking to diets and my sweet tooth is always craving something. There are no excuses there is only strength of will to get things done.

I thought that by doing a challenge and completing it I'd have the body I wanted, super fit and low BF. I realise now that it just doesn't happen like that. Yeah challenges are needed you have to have a goal in sight, and milestones along the way. The goals have to be realistic but they don't have to be cynical.

I started with Kris Gethins 12 week trainer, it was a fantastic programme, and gave me the much needed foundations to lift. The programme didn't have me shredded and stacked at the end but it had me knowing pain and the relationship of body to mind that you need if you're going to lift. Since completing the challenge and dropping 10kg during the programme I went from a size 38" down to 32" waist. A great confidence boost as I'd let my body slip and felt fat as well as looked it.

Now its all about size and strength, I want to be big, and see how big I can go. Seeing improvements week in week out is important. I don't take photos all the time but I get friends asking me for advice on how to train gives me a boost in confidence even though I'm along way from being shredded obviously improvements most be happening.

Another reason... I find a girl with muscles and a six pack the biggest turn on, so in order for me to meet them I've got to beI've had a lot of issues with sticking to diets and my sweet tooth is always craving something. There are no excuses there is only strength of will to get things done.

I thought that by doing a challenge and completing it I'd have the body I wanted, super fit and low BF. I realise now that it just doesn't happen like that. Yeah challenges are needed you have to have a goal in sight, and milestones along the way. The goals have to be realistic but they don't have to be cynical.

I started with Kris Gethins 12 week trainer, it was a fantastic programme, and gave me the much needed foundations to lift. The programme didn't have me shredded and stacked at the end but it had me knowing pain and the relationship of body to mind that you need if you're going to lift. Since completing the challenge and dropping 10kg during the programme I went from a size 38" down to 32" waist. A great confidence boost as I'd let my body slip and felt fat as well as looked it.

Now its all about size and strength, I want to be big, and see how big I can go. Seeing improvements week in week out is important. I don't take photos all the time but I get friends asking me for advice on how to train gives me a boost in confidence even though I'm along way from being shredded obviously improvements most be happening.

Also I like true dedication to the cause, and find a girl with a good body and a dedicated goal orientated mind the best for my own motivation and drive to keep going!

I'm now a dedicated gym lifter. I get angry when I see cross fit people a, using the stuff I need incorrectly b, a cross fit trainer encouraging bad form c, them taking up the entire weights area. I love having the gym to myself so I can throw around the weights as much as I like safe in the knowledge I'm not going to drop a bar bell on someones foot.

I love the pump I get from a good workout and I love the endorphin rush I get from beating my PB. I even love the stiff sore muscles that I get and I suffer from DOMS so when I can feel it after day 1 I know its been a good workout because day 2 after the workout is going to be even worse.

4 days are gym bound with an upper/lower split and active rest on wednesday. I smoke when I drink so I'm trying to keep both to a minimum but when on wednesday nights I beat all my mates in HIIT and want to go for more while the semi-professional footballer is heaving on the grass I feel pretty good about the odd vice.

All I can say is that I have tried and failed a 100 times, everybody fails in something at some time but it's not about the failure its about what you do once you fail. Accept it let it be a part of your education, learn from it and then next time you won't fail.

In the words of a (fictional) but no less inspirational man "Why do we fall sir? So that we can learn to pick ourselves up"